Stop padding if the distributor does not assign all the available #1696
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bitrate
Description
This PR addresses an issue where erizo would keep generating padding unnecessarily when using the
StreamPriorityBWDistribution
.If the distributor does not use all the available bitrate, the
PaddingManager
would still assign padding bitrate to the mediaStreams. We don't actually need that since the distributor has already assigned all the needed bitrate according to the defined strategy.This PR addresses this by instructing the
PaddingManager
to stop generating padding when there's unneeded available bitrate after a pass of the distribution algorithm.[] It needs and includes Unit Tests
Changes in Client or Server public APIs
[] It includes documentation for these changes in
/doc
.